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“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”

May Self Wisdom Spiritual Loss Existence Anxiety Threat Psychological Meaninglessness

Author:Paul Tillich

“A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.”

Loss Levels Judging Anxiety Majors Capacity Criteria

Book:A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Source: A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.”

Ifs World Should Mind May Given Loss Sin Anxiety Add Ill Details Complaining Merit Spares Committees Treasury Grievance Mirth Annoyance Robbing Provocation Good Humor Ill Health

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.”

Knows Age Loss Responsibility Middle Sorrow Anxiety Tables Folks Division Middle Ages Middle Aged Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Margaret Deland

“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Night Loss Sky Moon Anxiety Shining Disaster Mars Splendid Trinity Venus

Author:Janet Flanner

“Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.”

Ifs Feels Matter Hands Lost Stuff Loses Loss Five Anxiety Forgotten Instance Hey Again And Again Bucks Aversion Cursing Lost You

Author:Tim Harford

“Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.”

Mind Mean Pain Desire Difficult Hurt Loss Emotion Audience Sorrow Anxiety Negative Tragedy Intention Confusion Contradiction Resentment Absurdity Shameful

Author:Hyon Gyon

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”